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Female enrollment surpassed male enrollment for the first time in the College’s history during fall 2009.


TRUSTEE SERVICE REMEMBERED: Trustee Ken Jonsson, who served the College for 37 years, died March 15 at the age of 79. Jonsson chaired the Budget and Financial Planning and Audit Committees and helped raise $75.5 million as a mem- ber of the Campaign for Harvey Mudd College Cabinet in 1993. With his wife, Diana, he established the Kenneth A. and Diana G. Jonsson Annual Scholarship, The Kenneth A. and Diana G. Jonsson Professorship in Mathematics and the Jonsson Endowed Fund for Mathematics Department Travel. Trustee Trude C. Taylor, whose service to the College spanned


five decades, died Feb. 22 at the age of 86. He was co-chair with trustee Walter Foley ’69 of the 1989–94 Campaign for Harvey Mudd College. He was made an honorary alumnus in 1994 and received the Alumni Lifetime Recognition Award in 2006.


Experiential and Interdisciplinary Learning


GRANTS STRENGTHEN UNDERGRAD RESEARCH: Faculty member Kerry Karukstis became the co-principal inves- tigator on the largest grant in the 31-year history of the Coun- cil on Undergraduate Research. She is working with colleagues across the nation to administer the $999,500 National Science Foundation grant aimed at improving the quality of undergrad- uate science, technology, engineering and mathematics educa- tion at public and private colleges and universities. The depart- ments of Computer Science, Biology and Engineering received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to help advance vital research, teaching and learning resources.


CLINIC PROGRAM MARKS 40 YEARS: During 2009– 2010, 36 Clinic projects included those related to energy, sus- tainability and secure communication. Since the Clinic program began, almost 1,300 projects have been completed for corpo- rate, national laboratory and agency sponsors.


3 4 Unsurpassed Excellence and Diversity


ASTRONAUT SCHOLAR: Bryan Teague ’10, who spent a semester at the University of West Australia converting a Lotus Elise to a fully electric vehicle, received a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.


TWO GOLDWATER SCHOLARS: HMC juniors Matthew Keeter ’11 and Alicia Schep ’11 were awarded Barry M. Gold- water Scholarships. Two awards in one year is an impressive achievement for a small college.


WATSON FELLOW: A $25,000 fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation sent Robert Best ’10 around the globe to study present and future cities designed with minimal environ- mental impact.


TOP RESULTS AT ANNUAL COMPETITIONS: An HMC team earned the designation of Finalist, awarded to only 12 teams out of 2,254 entries worldwide, at the 2010 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling. At the December 2009 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, Jennifer Iglesias ’12, Palmer Mebane ’12 and Jackson Newhouse ’12 placed 12th out of 546 colleges and universities. Computer science majors Anak Yodpinyanee ’12, Stuart


Pernsteiner ’12 and Daniel Fielder ’11 won the regional com- petition and represented HMC at the World Finals of the As- sociation for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest in Harbin, China. Only 103 out of more than 7,100 teams made it to the finals.


CLASS OF 2014 MOST DIVERSE YET: Female enrollment for the Class of 2014 (52 percent) surpassed male enrollment for the first time in the College’s history. Record application num- bers—a 16 percent increase—created a larger pool of extremely talented students and increased selectivity.


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